Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is also a SiteGround Ambassador. During endless, sun-soaked days he works at Metro LA, one of the largest transit agencies in the country, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. When their Lead Developer and CSS goddess both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design and the rest is history. Over thirteen years later, he manages a growing WordPress blog network consisting of dozen project-specific or transit news sites. Joe brings expertise in SEO and Accessibility to Metro’s Digital Strategy team.
Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted, focusing FIRST on doing the things he truly loved — WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and TRULY giving back. He actively contributes to the WordPress Community, founding two WordPress Meetups, is the Lead Organizer for WordCamp Santa Clarita, and a member of the Programming Team for WordCamp US 2020. In April 2019, fifteen months after getting back into the WordPress Community, he watched his brainchild, WordCamp Santa Clarita become the first WordCamp north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco in since 2014.